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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:15:34 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:54:52AM +0000, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> I didn't quite get 'iovm' mean. Can you explain a bit about the idea?

It's short for IO Virtual Memory, basically a replacement term for 'svm'
that is not ambiguous (afaik) and not specific to Intel.


	Joerg